I don’t understand this. Am I missing something?
I thought the point of an audible book was for people too lazy to read, people who are sight-impaired, people who just want to lay in bed/relax in a chair with their eyes closed (and keep their hands warm) and listen to a book, people who are driving and can take in a book while driving, disabled who cannot hold a book, people who are dyslexic, etc.
Add text to the audio and - it becomes a book you read. And it was a book of text to read in the first place, often narrated by famous people.
Why would we want subtitles to read for audio books when we can read the book in the first place?

Very good idea for those trying to improve speech recognition while using aids.

Fair enough, but there’s more that 101 other ways to do this already.

cvkemp:

For me it is a way to improve my word recognition. I do have less than desirable word recognition so it is a way to hear the words and see them too. And it has help a lot.

If it works for you, that’s cool. My own experience is - I used to be a far better lip-reader and hear words far better until the advent of subtitles. I know of a few other deaf who have said the same thing, that subtitles have made it easier for us to hear our fave shows/films/podcasts etc. Maybe because it’s made us more lazy. So now we don’t hear and/or lip-read as well as we did before subtitles came along.

For me as a phone tech support person I had to understand what was being said there was no lips to be seen. And technical words are normally harder to understand than normal speech. I am now retired but my drive to improve my word understanding hasn’t changed